Docsity
Docsity

Prepare for your exams
Prepare for your exams

Study with the several resources on Docsity


Earn points to download
Earn points to download

Earn points by helping other students or get them with a premium plan


Guidelines and tips
Guidelines and tips

Black holes and how it formed., Lecture notes of Science education

A black hole is a region in space where the gravitational pull is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape once it falls within a certain boundary called the event horizon.

Typology: Lecture notes

2023/2024

This document is temporarily unavailable for download


Available from 06/13/2024

smith-emily
smith-emily 🇺🇸

4.7

(9)

4 documents

1 / 3

Toggle sidebar

This page cannot be seen from the preview

Don't miss anything!

bg1
How Do Black Hole Works?
A black hole is an astronomical object with a
gravitational pull so strong that nothing, not even
light, can escape it.
1. Formation
- Black holes form at the end of some stars’ lives.
When a massive star exhausts its nuclear fuel, it
collapses under its own weight due to gravity. The core
collapse triggers a supernova explosion, blowing off
the star’s outer layers. If the crushed core contains
more than about three times the Sun’s mass, it
collapses into a black hole.
2. Event Horizon
-A black hole’s “surface,” called its event horizon,
defines the boundary where the velocity needed to
escape exceeds the speed of light. Matter and
radiation fall in, but they can’t get out.
pf3

This document is temporarily unavailable for download

Partial preview of the text

Download Black holes and how it formed. and more Lecture notes Science education in PDF only on Docsity!

How Do Black Hole Works?

A black hole is an astronomical object with a

gravitational pull so strong that nothing, not even

light, can escape it.

  1. Formation
    • Black holes form at the end of some stars’ lives. When a massive star exhausts its nuclear fuel, it collapses under its own weight due to gravity. The core collapse triggers a supernova explosion, blowing off the star’s outer layers. If the crushed core contains more than about three times the Sun’s mass, it collapses into a black hole.
  2. Event Horizon
    • A black hole’s “surface,” called its event horizon, defines the boundary where the velocity needed to escape exceeds the speed of light. Matter and radiation fall in, but they can’t get out.
  1. Types of Black Holes
    • Stellar-mass black holes: These have three to dozens of times the Sun’s mass and are spread throughout our Milky Way galaxy.
    • Supermassive black holes: Found in the centers of most big galaxies, these monsters weigh 100,000 to billions of solar masses.
    • Intermediate-mass black holes: We suspect their existence but have limited direct evidence.
  2. Observations:
    • In 2019, the Event Horizon Telescope captured the first image of a black hole—a dark circle silhouetted by an orbiting disk of hot, glowing matter around a supermassive black hole in galaxy M87.
    • Gravitational waves, predicted by Einstein’s theory of relativity, were detected in 2015, providing indirect evidence of black holes.

Remember, black holes are mysterious

and exotic, yet they’re a key consequence

of how gravity work